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Tristana's abilities deal nothing but magic damage and she has no straight AD scaling - all she has is an AS steroid. Therefore, she's a bruiser.

...ok, sarcasm aside, what irritates me the most about Atrox is that his W is "on 3 hits" instead of "on hit". Granted, they probably wanted to avoid it being compared directly against Sion's E, but it just strikes me as really odd that he isn't given the ability to charge up his passive EVERY attack, and instead can technically get his ability to charge his passive completely shut down by kiting.

Also, he's definitely not going to be any form of hard carry, simply because he has neither strong defensive steroids (unless his passive heals for an insane amount) nor double-dip scaling (eg: Riven has AD > Defense) nor hyperscaling (ie: DotA's AGI being AS + AD, Nasus' Q scaling off time), nor even uber steroids to give the effect of hyperscaling (eg: Vayne, Kog'maw, Tristana).

At best he might turn out to be a decent fighter, but I definitely don't see much hope for him being our next melee carry.

Tristana's abilities deal nothing but magic damage and she has no straight AD scaling - all she has is an AS steroid. Therefore, she's a bruiser.

...ok, sarcasm aside, what irritates me the most about Atrox is that his W is "on 3 hits" instead of "on hit". Granted, they probably wanted to avoid it being compared directly against Sion's E, but it just strikes me as really odd that he isn't given the ability to charge up his passive EVERY attack, and instead can technically get his ability to charge his passive completely shut down by kiting.

Also, he's definitely not going to be any form of hard carry, simply because he has neither strong defensive steroids (unless his passive heals for an insane amount) nor double-dip scaling (eg: Riven has AD > Defense) nor hyperscaling (ie: DotA's AGI being AS + AD, Nasus' Q scaling off time), nor even uber steroids to give the effect of hyperscaling (eg: Vayne, Kog'maw, Tristana).

At best he might turn out to be a decent fighter, but I definitely don't see much hope for him being our next melee carry.

Okay, allow me to clarify...

It's the fact Aatrox has AD/AP steroids, while having a sub-par steroid, that makes him unable to be a carry. Tristana has no AD ratios, correct.

but she has one of the strongest steroids in the game.

Given Aatrox's W does not give AD, but rather bonus physical damage (aka, damage that cannot crit), it is nowhere near on the same level as say, Master Yi's E. Since his ult is only 45% AS, it's weaker than both master yi and Tristana. by a HUGE margin.

It doesn't mean that any of his abilities scale with AP, it means his abilities scale with AD but is dealt as magic damage.
But then again until we see whether or not it ad or ap ourselves neither one of us is right.

I was just posting to say that "deals blank as magic damage" doesn't always mean AP

It's the fact Aatrox has AD/AP steroids, while having a sub-par steroid, that makes him unable to be a carry. Tristana has no AD ratios, correct.

but she has one of the strongest steroids in the game.

Given Aatrox's W does not give AD, but rather bonus physical damage (aka, damage that cannot crit), it is nowhere near on the same level as say, Master Yi's E. Since his ult is only 45% AS, it's weaker than both master yi and Tristana. by a HUGE margin.